Siraj Syed

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Siraj Syed is the India Correspondent for FilmFestivals.com and a member of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics. He is a Film Festival Correspondent since 1976, Film-critic since 1969 and a Feature-writer since 1970. He is also an acting and dialogue coach. 

 
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FICCI FRAMES 2015, Part IV

Vanita Kohli Khandekar                                                                                                                                   Myleeta Aga FICCI FRAMES 2015, Part...


FICCI FRAMES 2015, Part III

FICCI FRAMES 2015, Part III Shooting for the Stars India could well become global entertainment super-power, if key catalysts, such as flawless and timely execution of policies and interventions at...


FICCI FRAMES 2015, Part II

FICCI FRAMES 2015, Part II At the inaugural session of FICCI FRAMES 2015, the government of India held out the assurance that it would address upfront the challenges before the media and...


FICCI FRAMES 2015, Part I

                                                                               FICCI FRAMES 2015, Part I Hotel Renaissance in Powai, Mumbai, an area that can well be called the ‘lake district’,...


Danny Collins, Review: Letter and spirit

Danny Collins, Review: Letter and spirit  Dan Fogelman, in his feature directorial debut, gives ample evidence of a truly fertile imagination that builds an edifice on an apparently flimsy premise....


Hot Pursuit, Review: Cool comic caper

Hot Pursuit, Review: Cool comic caper A go-by-the-book cop from San Antonio, Rose Cooper (Reese Witherspoon), who has a reputation for inefficiency and low intelligence, is assigned by Captain...


Playing it Cool, Review: He’s in love, she has a lover

Playing it Cool Justin Reardon’s debut film Convention started in 2011, but has yet to reach cinemas. His second effort, A Many Splintered Thing, began shooting in 2012, and we now have it released...


Gabbar is Back, Review: No, he’s not

Gabbar is Back, review: No, he’s not In his first incarnation, he was called Ramana. When the Tamil film was remade in Telugu, they called it Tagore. Then came the Kannada version, called Vishnu...


While We’re Young, Review: Means and ends

While We’re Young, Review: Means and ends Documentary film-maker and lecturer Josh (Ben Stiller) and his wife Cornelia (Naomi Watts) are a middle-aged New York couple who befriend a free-spirited,...


Avengers: Age of Ultron, Review: Fan-fare

Avengers: Age of Ultron, Review: Fan-fare Overloaded, campy and ‘fancentric’, Avengers: Age of Ultron is the Marvel Comics and Studios’ counterpart of the Justice League of America, the other array...